Animating Text Messages in HitFilm

I would love to create animated incoming and outgoing texts on screen like in "House of Cards." I have a pretty tech heavy webseries that I am currently shooting and I would love to have the texts appear on screen.

Has anyone been able to accomplish this in Hitfilm? Any help would be appreciated!

This keyframing tutorial is also for an older version. Everything still applies. Since House of Cards just fades it's titles, the property you want to keyframe is "Opacity" in the Text's "Transform" Properties.

Oh. Um. Are you in Express or one of the Pro's. Either way, the text and keyframe tutorials are things you'll need to know, but let me add in a masking tutorial. That will show you how to A)draw the text boxes inside Hitfilm set up masks to reveal your text for a "type-on" effect. As with the previous tutorials, they're for an older version of Hitfilm, but the procedure is the same as with the older version. Just some minor tweaks to the interface!

I have another question about text animation : I wanted to make a text typing effects, and the mask tool seemed not to work properly, since it didn't allow constant keyframes on the shape properties. Then, you can't reveal one letter at a time without having a wipe effect... I solved this by moving a plane with the same color as the background O(here, the constant keyframing works fine), but it involves a second object and it would only work with a solid color background. A simple typing text effect will be nice ! Any clue, maybe ?

@Deweak Create a second keyframe one frame before the one where you want it to move, so it'll be static over the life of a single letter, then move immediately to the next position/letter on the following frame; no wiping.